AUSTRALIANS HEALTH DANGER - CALL FOR GLOBAL BAN ON TOXIC WATER FLUORIDATION - EVIDENCE OF HARM & SUPPRESSION OF EVIDENCE - Health, Medicine and Natural Healing 08

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Submission to the Queensland and Federal Governments as to why water

fluoridation must be completely and irrevocably banned in Australia due

to Evidence of Harm.

My Fellow Australians,

This will be sent to many more in Government, Environmental & Health

Groups, Unions, Lawyers and many others/also recipients under bcc.

The health of all Australians and citizens worldwide is in danger and

you must not believe the Industry spin and their proponents any longer.

For your own sake and your loved ones and all Australians and other

citizens of the world, read everything here. YOU MUST FOR THE SAKE OF

ALL AUSTRALIANS, CALL FOR AN IMMEDIATE AND IRREVOCABLE BAN ON ALL

FLUORIDATION WITHIN AUSTRALIA. For decades many have been bringing forth

the dangers of water fluoridation and there is a revolution demanding

fluoridation end worldwide -you will see Dr. Connett in the video

hereunder; and I am calling on Australians to unite and in no uncertain

terms, tell our Queensland and Australian Governments to ban fluoride

permanently and irrevocably due to massive and credible Evidence of Harm

to human health and environmental health. You will do this when you read

the evidence I have compiled so please continue reading.

The Queensland Water Commission advises that they only deal with the

recycled sewerage; which they and Premier Bligh have received numerous

submissions/

complaints as to the safety of recycled sewerage and simply that the

people don't want it. They have received complaints about fluoride also,

but the person I spoke to at the Queensland Water Commission had no

knowledge whatsoever of the toxicity of fluoride or of the worldwide

call to action for a total ban on fluoridation because of the serious

human health and environmental adverse health effects and advised that

only the Health Dept. deals with fluoride issue,(apparently to be placed

in SE Queensland's water supplies lst Dec. 08) and I advised QWC

spokesperson, that Mr. on , Health Minister will be

receiving this from me as will many others in Australia and elsewhere. I

have previously corresponded on this issue with Premier Bligh, Mr.

Lawrence Springborg and others in Government as to the extremely serious

adverse health effects of fluoridation. I call on Premier Bligh and

others in Government and our Prime Minister Rudd to comprehend

that this is extremely serious and that they must take the only action

possible and that is to ban fluoridation permanently and irrevocably.

This 40 minute video below, presents a press conference held in Toronto,

Canada on August 7, 2008. It features Dr. Connett, Director of the

Fluoride Action Network, Dr. Vyvyan , an infant and fetal

pathologist, Buck, Director of Citizens for a Safe Environment

(CSE) and Mayor, spokesperson for People for Safe Drinking Water.

All four speakers present the arguments for ending fluoridation

immediately.

*WHY FLUORIDATION SHOULD BE HALTED*

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Fluoride poisoned horses

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There are two areas of concern regarding the nephrotoxic potential^ of

*fluoride*. A small and inclusive amount of research suggests^ that

*fluoridation of community water actually causes kidney^ disease*.

Kidney *damage* to tubular function and structure, and^ reduction in

glomerular filtration rate occurred in residents^ of endemic *fluoride*

areas [2

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anecdotal cases of *fluoride*^ intoxication [3

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suggested a causal relationship between *fluoride*^ intake and renal

failure.

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Please note this first article hereunder was written 8 years ago re:

*toxic fluoride from Dr. Hirzy before the United States Senate.*

NTEU CHAPTER 280 - U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, NATIONAL

HEADQUARTERS BEN FRANKLIN STATION, BOX 7672, WASHINGTON D.C. 20044 -

PHONE INTERNET http://www.nteu280.org/ E MAIL

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STATEMENT OF Dr. J. WILLIAM HIRZY NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION

CHAPTER 280

BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON WILDLIFE, FISHERIES AND DRINKING WATER UNITED

STATES SENATE JUNE 29, 2000

Good morning Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee. I appreciate

the opportunity to appear before this Subcommittee to present the views

of the union, of which I am a Vice-President, on the subject of

fluoridation of public water supplies.

Our union is comprised of and represents the professional employees at

the headquarters location of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in

Washington D.C. Our members include toxicologists, biologists, chemists,

engineers, lawyers and others defined by law as " professionals. " The

work we do includes evaluation of toxicity, exposure and economic

information for management's use in formulating public health and

environmental protection policy. I am not here as a representative of

EPA, but rather as a representative of EPA headquarters professional

employees, through their duly elected labor union. The union first got

involved in this issue in 1985 as a matter of professional ethics. In

1997 we most recently voted to oppose fluoridation. Our opposition has

strengthened since then.

Summary of Recommendations:-

1) We ask that you order an independent review of a cancer bioassay

previously mandated by Congressional committee and subsequently

performed by Battelle Memorial Institute with appropriate blinding and

instructions that all reviewer's independent determinations be reported

to this Committee.

2) We ask that you order that the two waste products of the fertilizer

industry that are now used in 90% of fluoridation programs, for which

EPA states they are not able to identify any chronic studies, be used in

any future toxicity studies, rather than a substitute chemical. Further,

since federal agencies are actively advocating that each man woman and

child drink, eat and bathe in these chemicals, silicofluorides should be

placed at the head of the list for establishing a MCL that complies with

the Safe Drinking Water Act. This means that the MCL be protective of

the most sensitive of our population, including infants, with an

appropriate margin of safety for ingestion over an entire lifetime.

3) We ask that you order an epidemiology study comparing children with

dental fluorosis to those not displaying overdose during growth and

development years for behavioral and other disorders.

4) We ask that you convene a joint Congressional Committee to give the

only substance that is being mandated for ingestion throughout this

country the full hearing that it deserves.

National Review of Fluoridation The Subcommittee's hearing today can

only begin to get at the issues surrounding the policy of water

fluoridation in the United States, a massive experiment that has been

run on the American public, without informed consent, for over fifty

years. The last Congressional hearings on this subject were held in

1977. Much knowledge has been gained in the intervening years. It is

high time for a national review of this policy by a Joint Select

Committee of Congress. New hearings should explore, at minimum, these

points:

1) excessive and un-controlled fluoride exposures;

2) altered findings of a cancer bioassay;

3) the results and implications of recent brain effects research;

4) the " protected pollutant " status of fluoride within EPA;

5) the altered recommendations to EPA of a 1983 Surgeon General's Panel

on fluoride;

6) the results of a fifty-year experiment on fluoridation in two New

York communities;

7) the findings of fact in three landmark lawsuits since 1978;

8) the findings and implications of recent research linking the

predominant fluoridation chemical with elevated blood-lead levels in

children and anti-social behavior; and

9) changing views among dental researchers on the efficacy of water

fluoridation

Fluoride Exposures Are Excessive and Un-controlled According to a study

by the National Institute of Dental Research, 66 percent of America's

children in fluoridated communities show the visible sign of

over-exposure and fluoride toxicity, dental fluorosis (1). That result

is from a survey done in the mid-1980's and the figure today is

undoubtedly much higher.

Centers for Disease Control and EPA claim that dental fluorosis is only

a " cosmetic " effect. God did not create humans with fluorosed teeth.

That effect occurs when children ingest more fluoride than their bodies

can handle with the metabolic processes we were born with, and their

teeth are damaged as a result. And not only their teeth. Children's

bones and other tissues, as well as their developing teeth are

accumulating too much fluoride. We can /see/ the effect on teeth. Few

researchers, if any, are looking for the effects of excessive fluoride

exposure on bone and other tissues in American children. What has been

reported so far in this connection is disturbing. One example is

epidemiological evidence (2a, 2b) showing elevated bone cancer in young

men related to consumption of fluoridated drinking water.

Without trying to ascribe a cause and effect relationship beforehand, we

do know that American children in large numbers are afflicted with

hyperactivity-attention deficit disorder, that autism seems to be on the

rise, that bone fractures in young athletes and military personnel are

on the rise, that earlier onset of puberty in young women is occurring.

There are biologically plausible mechanisms described in peer-reviewed

research on fluoride that can link some of these effects to fluoride

exposures (e.g. 3,4,5,6). Considering the economic and human costs of

these conditions, we believe that Congress should order epidemiology

studies that use dental fluorosis as an index of exposure to determine

if there are links between such effects and fluoride over-exposure.

In the interim, while this epidemiology is conducted, we believe that a

national moratorium on water fluoridation should be instituted. There

will be a hue and cry from some quarters, predicting increased dental

caries, but Europe has about the same rate of dental caries as the U.S.

(7) and most European countries do not fluoridate (8). I am submitting

letters from European and Asian authorities on this point. There are

studies in the U.S. of localities that have interrupted fluoridation

with no discernable increase in dental caries rates (e.g., 9).* And

people who want the freedom of choice to continue to ingest fluoride can

do so by other means.

Cancer Bioassay Findings *In 1990, the results of the National

Toxicology Program cancer bioassay on sodium fluoride were published *

(10),* the initial findings of which would have ended fluoridation*. But

a special commission was hastily convened to review the findings,

resulting in the salvation of fluoridation through systematic

down-grading of the evidence of carcinogenicity. The final, published

version of the NTP report says that there is, " equivocal evidence of

carcinogenicity in male rats, " changed from " clear evidence of

carcinogenicity in male rats. "

The change prompted *Dr. Marcus, who was then Senior Science

Adviser and Toxicologist in the Office of Drinking Water, to blow the

whistle *about the issue (22), which led to his firing by EPA. Dr.

Marcus sued EPA, won his case and was reinstated with back pay, benefits

and compensatory damages.* I am* *submitting material from Dr. Marcus to

the Subcommittee dealing with the cancer and neurotoxicity risks posed

by fluoridation.*

We believe the Subcommittee should call for an independent review of the

tumor slides from the bioassay, as was called for by Dr. Marcus (22),

with the results to be presented in a hearing before a Select Committee

of the Congress. The scientists who conducted the original study, the

original reviewers of the study, and the " review commission " members

should be called, and an explanation given for the changed findings.

Brain Effects Research Since 1994 there have been six publications that

link fluoride exposure to direct adverse effects on the brain. Two

epidemiology studies from China indicate depression of I.Q. in children

(11,12). Another paper (3) shows a link between prenatal exposure of

animals to fluoride and subsequent birth of off-spring which are

hyperactive throughout life. A 1998 paper shows brain and kidney damage

in animals given the " optimal " dosage of fluoride, viz. one part per

million (13). And another (14) shows decreased levels of a key substance

in the brain that may explain the results in the other paper from that

journal. Another publication (5) links fluoride dosing to adverse

effects on the brain's pineal gland and pre-mature onset of sexual

maturity in animals. Earlier onset of menstruation of girls in

fluoridated Newburg, New York has also been reported (6).

Given the national concern over incidence of attention

deficit-hyperactivity disorder and autism in our children, we believe

that the authors of these studies should be called before a Select

Committee, along with those who have critiqued their studies, so the

American public and the Congress can understand the implications of this

work.

Fluoride as a Protected Pollutant The classic example of EPA's

protective treatment of this substance, recognized the world over and in

the U.S. before the linguistic de-toxification campaign of the 1940's

and 1950's as a major environmental pollutant, is the 1983 statement by

EPA's then Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water, Hanmer

(15), that EPA views the use of hydrofluosilicic acid recovered from the

waste stream of phosphate fertilizer manufacture as,

" ...an ideal solution to a long standing problem. By recovering

by-product fluosilicic acid (sic) from fertilizer manufacturing, water

and air pollution are minimized, and water authorities have a low-cost

source of fluoride... "

In other words, the solution to pollution is dilution, as long as the

pollutant is dumped straight into drinking water systems and not into

rivers or the atmosphere. I am submitting a copy of her letter.

Other Federal entities are also protective of fluoride. Congressman

Calvert of the House Science Committee has sent letters of inquiry to

EPA and other Federal entities on the matter of fluoride, answers to

which have not yet been received.

We believe that EPA and other Federal officials should be called to

testify on the manner in which fluoride has been protected. The union

will be happy to assist the Congress in identifying targets for an

inquiry. For instance, hydrofluosilicic acid does not appear on the

Toxic Release Inventory list of chemicals, and there is a remarkable

discrepancy among the Maximum Contaminant Levels for fluoride, arsenic

and lead, given the relative toxicities of these substances.

Surgeon General's Panel on Fluoride We believe that EPA staff and

managers should be called to testify, along with members of the 1983

Surgeon General's panel and officials of the Department of Human

Services, to explain how the original recommendations of the Surgeon

General's panel (16) were altered to allow EPA to set otherwise

unjustifiable drinking water standards for fluoride.

Kingston and Newburg, New York Results In 1998, the results of a

fifty-year fluoridation experiment involving Kingston, New York

(un-fluoridated) and Newburg, New York (fluoridated) were published

(17). In summary, there is no overall significant difference in rates of

dental decay in children in the two cities, but children in the

fluoridated city show significantly higher rates of dental fluorosis

than children in the un-fluoridated city.

We believe that the authors of this study and representatives of the

Centers For Disease Control and EPA should be called before a Select

Committee to explain the increase in dental fluorosis among American

children and the implications of that increase for skeletal and other

effects as the children mature, including bone cancer, stress fractures

and arthritis.

Findings of Fact by Judges In three landmark cases adjudicated since

1978 in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Texas (18), judges with no interest

except finding fact and administering justice heard prolonged testimony

from proponents and opponents of fluoridation and made dispassionate

findings of fact. I cite one such instance here.

In November, 1978, Judge Flaherty, now Chief Justice of the Supreme

Court of Pennsylvania, issued findings in the case, /Aitkenhead v.

Borough of West View, /tried before him in the Allegheny Court of Common

Pleas. Testimony in the case filled 2800 transcript pages and fully

elucidated the benefits and risks of water fluoridation as understood in

1978. Judge Flaherty issued an injunction against fluoridation in the

case, but the injunction was overturned on jurisdictional/ /grounds. His

findings of fact were not disturbed by appellate action. Judge Flaherty,

in a July, 1979 letter to the Mayor of Aukland New Zealand wrote the

following about the case:

" In my view, the evidence is quite convincing that the addition of

sodium fluoride to the public water supply at one part per million is

extremely deleterious to the human body, and, a review of the evidence

will disclose that there was no convincing evidence to the contrary...

" Prior to hearing this case, I gave the matter of fluoridation little,

if any, thought, but I received quite an education, and noted that the

proponents of fluoridation do nothing more than try to impune (sic) the

objectivity of those who oppose fluoridation. "

In the Illinois decision, Judge Niemann concludes: " This record

is barren of any credible and reputable scientific epidemiological

studies and or analysis of statistical data which would support the

Illinois Legislature's determination that fluoridation of the water

supplies is both a safe and effective means of promoting public health. "

Judge Farris in Texas found: " [That] the artificial fluoridation

of public water supplies, such as contemplated by {Houston} City

ordinance No. 80-2530 may cause or contribute to the cause of cancer,

genetic damage, intolerant reactions, and chronic toxicity, including

dental mottling, in man; that the said artificial fluoridation may

aggravate malnutrition and existing illness in man; and that the value

of said artificial fluoridation is in some doubt as to reduction of

tooth decay in man. "

The significance of Judge Flaherty's statement and his and the other two

judges' findings of fact is this: proponents of fluoridation are fond of

reciting endorsement statements by authorities, such as those by CDC and

the American Dental Association, both of which have long-standing

commitments that are hard if not impossible to recant, on the safety and

efficacy of fluoridation. Now come three truly independent servants of

justice, the judges in these three cases, and they find that

fluoridation of water supplies is not justified.

*Proponents of fluoridation are absolutely right about one thing: there

is no real controversy about fluoridation when the facts are heard by an

open mind.*

I am submitting a copy of the excerpted letter from Judge Flaherty and

another letter referenced in it that was sent to Judge Flaherty by Dr.

Sammartino, then Chancellor of Fairleigh Dickenson University. I

am also submitting a reprint copy of an article in the Spring 1999 issue

of the Florida State University /Journal of Land Use and Environmental

Law/ by Jack Graham and Dr. Pierre Morin, titled " Highlights in North

American Litigation During the Twentieth Century on Artificial

Fluoridation of Public Water. Mr. Graham was chief litigator in the case

before Judge Flaherty and in the other two cases (in Illinois and Texas).

We believe that Mr. Graham should be called before a Select Committee

along with, if appropriate, the judges in these three cases who could

relate their experience as trial judges in these cases.

Hydrofluosilicic Acid There are no chronic toxicity data on the

predominant chemical, hydrofluosilicic acid and its sodium salt, used to

fluoridate American communities. Newly published studies (19) i*ndicate

a link between use of these chemicals and elevated level of lead in

children's blood and anti-social behavior*. Material from the authors of

these studies has been submitted by them independently.

We believe the authors of these papers and their critics should be

called before a Select Committee to explain to you and the American

people what these papers mean for continuation of the policy of

fluoridation.

Changing Views on Efficacy and Risk In recent years, two prominent

dental researchers who were leaders of the pro-fluoridation movement

announced reversals of their former positions because they concluded

that water fluoridation is not an effective means of reducing dental

caries and that it poses serious risks to human health. The late Dr.

Colquhoun was Principal Dental Officer of Aukland, New Zealand, and

he published his reasons for changing sides in 1997 (20). In 1999, Dr.

Hardy Limeback, Head of Preventive Dentistry, University of Toronto,

announced his change of views, then published a statement (21) dated

April 2000. I am submitting a copy of Dr. Limeback's publications.

We believe that Dr. Limeback, along with fluoridation proponents who

have not changed their minds, such as Drs. Ernest Newbrun and Herschel

Horowitz, should be called before a Select Committee to testify on the

reasons for their respective positions.

Thank you for you consideration, and I will be happy to take questions.

CITATIONS:-

1.Dental caries and dental fluorosis at varying water fluoride

concentrations. Heller, K.E, Eklund, S.A. and Burt, B.A. /J. Pub. Health

Dent. /_57_ 136-43 (1997).

2a. A brief report on the association of drinking water fluoridation and

the incidence of osteosarcoma among young males. Cohn, P.D. /New Jersey

Department of Health/ (1992).

2b. Time trends for bone and joint cancers and osteosarcomas in the

Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program. National

Cancer Institute. In: /Review of fluoride: benefits and risks./

Department of Health and Human Services.1991: F1-F7.

3.Neurotoxicity of sodium fluoride in rats. Mullenix, P.J., Denbesten,

P.K., Schunior, A. and Kernan, W.J. /Neurotoxicol. Teratol/. _17_

169-177 (1995)

4a. Fluoride and bone - quantity versus quality [editorial] /N. Engl. J.

Med/. _322_ 845-6 (1990)

4b. Summary of workshop on drinking water fluoride influence on hip

fracture and bone health. Gordon, S.L. and Corbin, S.B. /Natl. Inst.

Health./ April 10, 1991.

5. Effect of fluoride on the physiology of the pineal gland. Luke, J.A.

/Caries Research/ _28_ 204 (1994).

6. Newburgh-Kingston caries-fluorine study XIII. Pediatric findings

after ten years. Schlesinger, E.R., Overton, D.E., Chase, H.C., and

Cantwell, K.T. /JADA/ _52_ 296-306 (1956).

7. WHO oral health country/area profile programme. Department of

Non-Communicable Diseases Surveillance/Oral Health. WHO Collaborating

Centre, Malmö University, Sweden.

8. Letters from government authorities in response to inquiries on

fluoridation status by E. Albright. Eugene Albright: contact through J.

W. Hirzy, P.O. Box 76082, Washington, D.C. 20013.

9. The effects of a break in water fluoridation on the development of

dental caries and fluorosis. Burt B.A., Keels ., Heller KE. /J. Dent.

Res./ 2000 Feb;79(2):761-9.

10. Toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of sodium fluoride in F344/N

rats and B6C3F_1 mice. /NTP Report No. 393/ (1991).

11. Effect of high fluoride water supply on children's intelligence.

Zhao, L.B., Liang, G.H., Zhang, D.N., and Wu, X.R./ Fluoride/ _29_

190-192 (1996)

12. Effect of fluoride exposure on intelligence in children. Li, X.S.,

Zhi, J.L., and Gao, R.O. /Fluoride/ _28_ (1995).

13. Chronic administration of aluminum- fluoride or sodium-fluoride to

rats in drinking water: alterations in neuronal and cerebrovascular

integrity. Varner, J.A., Jensen, K.F., Horvath, W. And Isaacson, R.L.

/Brain Research/ _784_ 284-298 (1998).

14. Influence of chronic fluorosis on membrane lipids in rat brain. Z.Z.

Guan, Y.N. Wang, K.Q. Xiao, D.Y. Dai, Y.H. Chen, J.L. Liu, P. Sindelar

and G. Dallner, Neurotoxicology and Teratology/ _20_ 537-542 (1998).

15. Letter from Hanmer, Deputy Assistant Administrator for

Water, to re: EPA view on use of by-product fluosilicic

(sic) acid as low cost source of fluoride to water authorities. March

30, 1983.

16.Transcript of proceedings - Surgeon General's (Koop) /ad hoc/

committee on non-dental effects of fluoride. April 18-19, 1983. National

Institutes of Health. Bethesda, MD.

17. Recommendations for fluoride use in children. Kumar, J.V. and Green,

E.L. /New York State Dent. J. /(1998) 40-47.

18. Highlights in North American litigation during the twentieth century

on artificial fluoridation of public water supplies. Graham, J.R. and

Morin, P. /Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law /_14_ 195-248

(Spring 1999)/ /Florida State University College of Law.

19. Water treatment with silicofluorides and lead toxicity. Masters,

R.D. and Coplan, M.J. /Intern. J. Environ. Studies /_56_ 435-49 (1999).

20. Why I changed my mind about water fluoridation. Colquhoun, J.

/Perspectives in Biol. And Medicine/ _41_ 1-16 (1997).

21. Letter. Limeback, H. April 2000. Faculty of Dentistry, University of

Toronto.

22.. Memorandum: /Subject/: Fluoride Conference to Review the NTP Draft

Fluoride Report; /From/: Wm. L. Marcus, Senior Science Advisor ODW;

/To/: Alan B. Hais, Acting Director Criteria & Standards Division Office

of Drinking Water. May 1, 1990.

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*Do other nations fluoridate their drinking water? *

It is interesting to note, in contrast, that Finland, Cuba, Japan, the

Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Mexico, France, Spain, Columbia, Jamaica,

Costa Rica, and several other nations do not add silicofluorides to

their public drinking water. Ninety-eight percent of Europe is

fluoridation-free. Many of these nations oppose the fluoridation of

water in recognition of its deleterious affects on the environment and

human health.

*Who supports and who does not support the fluoridation of drinking

water? Why?*

Today, the US Public Health Service, the American Dental Association,

and the aluminum, steel and fertilizer industries are arguably the

strongest proponents of adding fluoride to public water.

The EPA set permissible levels of fluoride in drinking water, though

several EPA scientists have spoken out since about the serious dangers

of fluoride in water. Today, the EPA scientists refuse to drink

fluoridated water, ordering unfluoridated bottled water for their

offices. In 1999, the union that represents EPA staff publicly

requested, “an immediate halt to the use of the nation’s drinking water

reservoirs as disposal sites for the toxic waste of the phosphorus

fertilizer industry.

The FDA does not regulate the fluoridation of water, even though

millions of Americans ingest it daily.

Many scientists, other medical experts, legal experts, and consumer

advocates are strongly opposed to the fluoridation of water, due to the

numerous health hazards posed by fluoride.

When given the chance to vote, nearly 70 percent of all communities in

the United States have argued against fluoridation of water. Since 1999,

nearly 100 US communities have rejected adding fluoride to water.

Our team of qualified attorneys is strongly opposed to the fluoridation

of drinking water because of the strong established link between

fluoride and osteosarcoma and other serious adverse health conditions.

We are prepared to help protect the legal rights of those who have

suffered osteosarcoma and other serious injuries caused by fluoride. If

you would like to learn more about your legal rights and options, please

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*A chronicle of the abuse of power and of the manufacture of

state-sponsored medical propaganda, The Fluoride Deception reveals how

military and industry scientists and public health officials buried

information about fluoride's potential for human harm, while promoting

its use in dentistry. *

* *

http://www.fluoridealert.org/bryson.htm

The Fluoride Deception reveals that fluoride pollution was the greatest

legal threat facing the wartime Manhattan Project. And the book

documents how a secretive group of powerful industries, who all faced

extensive litigation for fluoride pollution, collaborated with the

Institute of Dental Research to launder fluoride's image. We'll meet the

dissident scientists who warned us about fluoride from the beginning.

We'll sit with the famous doctor who'd alerted America in the 1950's to

the dangers of cigarette smoking, who reported that fluoride was a

systemic poison, with tens of thousands of citizens uniquely sensitive

to even tiny doses. We'll walk the cobbled streets of Donora,

Pennsylvania, in the shrouded aftermath of the nation's most notorious

air pollution disaster in 1948, and meet the scientist who blamed

-fluoride for the deaths.

Today, that scientist joins a growing number of health experts who call

fluoride a venomous and hydra-headed poison. They suspect its

involvement in a host of modern illnesses, including arthritis, bone

cancer, and emphysema, and a spectrum of central nervous system

disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and the epidemic of attention

deficit disorder sweeping America's children.

Bryson is an award-winning Columbia Journalism

School-trained investigative reporter and television producer. After

reporting on Guatemalan Army human rights abuses from Central America in

the late 1980s for the BBC World Service, National Public Radio, and The

Atlanta Constitution, he won a Polk Award for work at Public

Television's The Kwitny Report. In 1998, he was part of a team that won

a National Headliner award at ABC News Productions for a History Channel

documentary on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. End

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* Fluoride Action Network* http://www.fluoridealert.org/ / see hereunder:

*Fluoride a health risk, doctors' group says representing 3,500 members*

By Gideon Forman Executive Director, Canadian Association of Physicians

for the Environment

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Halton might pull plug on fluoridated water

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ting-water

*On behalf of the 3,500 members of the Canadian Association of

Physicians for the Environment, I'm writing to support the proposed ban

on fluoride in Halton's drinking water.

* *The decline in caries (cavities) in communities that are fluoridated

has been significant -- but so is the decline in communities that are

not fluoridated. For example, B.C. drinking water is 95 per cent

nonfluoridated, whereas drinking water in Alberta is 75 per cent

fluoridated; yet the two provinces have similar rates of caries.

*Fluoridation comes with significant risks. Animal studies have shown

the chemical is a potential immunotoxin, embryotoxin and neurotoxin.

Because fluoridation is unlikely to be the cause of caries decline in

North America and because the potential for adverse effects is real, we

believe fluoridation of drinking water is scientifically untenable.*

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*FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK * http://www.fluoridealert.org/ *as at this

time almost 2000 Professionals signed so far calling for an end to

worldwide fluoridation:-*

http://www.fluoridealert.org/professionals.statement.html

Also:- Esteemed voices for 50 years warned dangerous long term

consequences to health http://www.nofluoride.com/esteemed_voices.htm

I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs.

/*Fluoride is a corrosive poison/ that will produce serious effects on a

long range basis. Any attempt to* *use water this way is deplorable. "

/Dr. Gordon Heyd, Past President of the American Medical

Association.*

fluoridation ... it is the greatest fraud that has ever been perpetrated

and it has been perpetrated on more people than any other fraud has. "

Professor Albert Schatz, Ph.D. (Microbiology), Co-Discoverer of

streptomycin*

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http://www.fluoridealert.org/queensland-letter.htm /

Press Release 31 August 2004/* AUSTRALIAN PROFESSIONALS AGAINST WATER

FLUORIDATION *

An OPEN LETTER to all Queensland Councillors and to State Government

Members, f*rom a professional group representing over 1500 Australian

doctors, dentists and scientists against water fluoridation* and

personally supported by eminent international scientists as well as

others working in the interests of public health, was released 31st

August, 2004.

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http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/96ce/3_Diesendorf.pdf

*Fluoridation: breaking the silence barrier

Mark Diesendorf *

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*Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at the University of the Sciences in

Philadelphia SAYS FLUORIDATION SHOULD CEASE.*

*Artificial fluoridation of drinking water by municipalities at 1ppm of

fluoride ion probably does not reduce tooth decay, except for a minor

effect on deciduous teeth.* Hexafluorosilicic acid and its sodium salt,

which contain other toxic substances because they are not purified,

certainly have no significant benefit.

*Proponents of fluoridation have censored most media, ignored

intelligent discussion of fluoridation, slandered most opponents of

fluoridation, and overturned legal judgments against fluoridation in a

manner that demonstrates their political power.* Many published studies

that had conclusions favoring fluoridation were later found unsupported

by their raw data. *There is evidence that fluoridation increases the

incidence of cancer, hip fractures, joint problems, and that by causing

fluorosis it damages both teeth and bones. Other medical problems may

also occur, including neurologic damage.

*Fluoridation of municipal water should cease*. Defluoridation of

naturally fluoridated water down to 0.4 ppm of fluoride should be

mandated. Individuals should remove fluoride from their tap water if

fluoridation cannot be stopped.

* M. Kauffman, Ph.D. *

*Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at the University of the Sciences in

Philadelphia*, 600 S. 43rd St., Philadelphia, PA,

19104-4495. E-mail: kauffman@....

Frances Eleanor Heckert Pane, M.S.L.S., and Alayne

Yates, M.D., edited the manuscript and provided key references, as did

A. Pane, Jr., J.D., LL.M, and Ann Bowman, A.M.L.S. Certain

reviewers made important contributions.

The author has no financial interest in fluoridation or alternate

treatments for public water supplies, or in any form of defluoridation.

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http://www.i-sis.org.uk/NotoFluoridation.php

*INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE IN SOCIETY *

*No to Fluoridation *

*The " mass medication " of UK’s drinking water with a listed poison will

cost London’s health authorities/ *

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http://www.rachel.org/en/node/6643

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION

New science about how it alters body chemistry as well as a growing

number of studies that show dental health in communities with fluoride

fares no better than those without it, have canceled earlier support.

Such was the justification offered by Zurich, Switzerland officials when

fluoride was discontinued several years ago. Similar data has caused

fluoride to be banned in Japan, China, India, and most of Europe.

Fluoride's strongholds are the United States, Canada, Australia, and New

Zealand.

*While fluoride proponents still have affiliates in national health

organizations, many have withdrawn support. Among the health advocates

opposing fluoride are: the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology,

the American Academy of Diabetes, the American Cancer Society, the

American Diabetes Association, the American Nurses Association, the

American Psychiatric Association, the National Kidney Foundation, and

the Society of Toxicology. *

*Some of the most effective anti-fluoride campaigners are former

supporters.* Consider Hardy Limeback, BSc, PhD, DDS, head of the

Department of Preventive Dentistry for the University of Toronto and

president of the Canadian Association for Dental Research. In an April

1999 interview, Limeback, once a vocal advocate of the drug, stated,

" Children under three should never use fluoridated toothpaste or drink

fluoridated water. And baby formula must never be made up using Toronto

tap water. Never. "

Seven years later, in 2006, the ADA, followed by the CDC, issued

advisories calling on mothers to stop using tap water to mix baby

formula. The ADA has also recently acknowledged that fluoride has no

value when used systemically, that its only effectiveness comes from

topical applications. Nevertheless, the federal health bureaucracy calls

fluoride a major advancement, apparently in denial about the

schizophrenic nature of its policies.

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AND ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP

http://www.ewg.org/node/8795 full article Extract below:-

September 15, 2006

Extract:

(WASHINGTON, Sept. 15) — A Harvard Medical School professor recently

cleared by a Harvard ethics panel of charges that he suppressed critical

research findings made a million dollar contribution to the University's

Dental School.

*The contribution—one of just six million dollar gifts that helped

create the Dental School's new research building*—is not in and of

itself improper, but it raises questions about the willingness of the

University to censure the donor, Dr. Chester s, chairman of the

Dental School's Oral Health Policy & Epidemiology Department.

The donation revelation comes in the wake of the University's refusal to

release the report of its own ethics committee that exonerated s

of the charges, brought by the *Environmental Working Group, that he

suppressed research findings on the link between fluoride and bone

cancer in boys* in his reporting to the National Research Council and

National Institutes of Health. *The secret investigation that cleared

s also found that he had not violated conflict of interest rules

in his dual roles as* *fluoride cancer researcher and employee of the

Colgate toothpaste company - **Colgate is a leading advocate of

fluoride. * *s edits the company's journal, " The Oral Care Report.*

* " We're not sure which is wackier, the politics of fluoride, or ethics

standards at Harvard, " said Wiles, Sr. Vice President of

Environmental Working Group. " There is nothing wrong with donating a

million dollars to your employer, but it does create a potentially

serious conflict of interest when the recipient of the million dollars

is investigating the ethics of the donor, " Wiles added*

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http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/companion.asp?id=7 & compID=14

Excerpt:

*Environmental and Occupational Health The Precautionary Principle *

While it is difficult to know the exact role toxins play in determining

our health, the depth of their impact on our ecological system and our

individual health becomes clearer every day. Many environmental health

activists, believing that environmental and public health regulations do

not adequately protect either the environment or human health, are

undertaking a global campaign to create new public policies based on an

approach called the Precautionary Principle.

For decades, health and safety regulations on new chemicals and

technologies have been based on risk assessment, which assumes there are

certain levels of toxic exposure and contamination our bodies can

tolerate and assimilate. Advocates of the Precautionary Principle

believe this a flawed strategy, and are fighting to replace the risk

paradigm with standards that protect people and the environment from

potential harm.

" When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the

environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause

and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. In

this context the proponent of an activity, rather than the public,

should bear the burden of proof. "

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http://www.dukehealth.org/HealthLibrary/News/552

This from Duke University Health about fluoridated toothpaste!

There are literally hundreds of incidents nationally each year where

*children have been poisoned after eating fluoridated toothpaste,* "

Stopford says. " The results range from an upset stomach to a situation

that's hazardous to the child's life. It's not appropriate to let young

children use fluoridated toothpaste by themselves. " Like other

medications, the toothpaste should be stored in a place that's

inaccessible to kids, he says.

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http://www.ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm

The above revelations open a Pandora’s box regarding the mental effects

of fluorinated drugs and chemicals. Freons have psychoactive effects,

and is the tip of the iceberg regarding fluorinated drugs and chemicals.

The Germans were leaders in such research. During World War II the

Germans invented the first nerve gas, Soman. It is a fluorinated

chemical. In 1939, the scientists at Farben invented Sarin, the most

deadly nerve gas next to VX. Sarin is an acronym of the initials of the

Farben scientists who developed it. Sarin was going to replace Zyklon B

in the gas chambers, but the war ended before mass production could

begin. *Sarin is also a* f*luorinated chemical,* a close cousin of

Soman, and the EPA recently published a chemical profile on Sarin, after

Gulf War Syndrome veterans (who think that Sarin may be responsible for

their disease) pressured the government, showing that the fluorine atom

was its active ingredient.[50]

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#_edn50

*Rohypnol, the notorious drug used in date rapes, is fluorinated Valium,

making it more than twenty times as potent as normal Valium. Prozac is

another fluorinated drug. In all, there are hundreds of fluorinated

drugs, and many have profound mental effects, including memory loss. *

The primary effect of psychoactive drugs is inhibiting enzyme

production, which the fluorine ion is well known to do. In light of

other facts surrounding fluoridation, this begins treading frightening

territory. Fluoridation promoters and others often laugh off such

situations as the workings of hopelessly paranoid minds. In light of

declassified memos regarding U.S. CNS experiments of fifty years ago (at

nearly the same time the Nazis and Soviets were doing similar kinds of

experiments), /and/http://www.ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#_edn51*

In other unsettling revelations, documents have surfaced which revealed

that when the Newburgh New York fluoridation trials were run, testing

fluoride’s mental effects on the subject children was planned, and

tissue samples were secretly tested at the University of Rochester. The

results of those tests have yet to be made public.

In Mullins’ book he chalks up the fluoridation push as a mind-control

ploy by the “Rockefeller Syndicate.” Mullins says that the Rockefellers

paid Ewing’s astronomical salary at ALCOA in order to set up his tenure

at the Federal Security Agency. The Rockefeller name has come up

repeatedly in the area of social control in my studies.

Gatto http://www.ahealedplanet.net/links.htm#gatt is a two-time New York

City Teacher of the Year. Gatto taught for twenty-six years in inner

city New York. Gatto is an anomaly in teaching. He is widely recognized

as one of the best teachers America has to offer, but he is highly

critical of our educational system

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#gatto. In 1992, he wrote

/Dumbing us Down/, a monograph he published after retiring from the New

York City school system. /Dumbing us Down/ is a devastating critique of

America’s compulsory school system, and how it beats the humanity out of

children and “dumbs us down.”

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http://candobetter.org/node/334

*Former Whitlam Government Health Minister says No to Water Fluoridation

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Click link for full article:-

http://eldib.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/studies-suggest-that-over-consumption-of-f\

luoride-can-raise-the-risks-of-disorders-affecting-teeth-bones-the-brain-and-the\

-thyroid-gland/#comments

Sin of omission’ endorsements and spin dished out over the years has

created an ‘illusion,’ that fluoride chemicals added to our water supply

are beneficial and safe. *Here is reality of fluoridation, Tasmania

(Australia) has been fluoridated for about 50 years and has one of the

most intensive fluoridation schemes.* Currently it has 41 fluoridation

plants for nearly half a million people, is 83% fluoridated at 1.1ppm

with Fluosilicic Acid and Sodium Fluoride, *And yet: The president of

the Australian Dental Association quoted in the Tasmanian Advocate -*

*2001:“Tasmania is in a Dental crisis*.” A recent report released 17th

Dec 2007 from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare stated:

“The highest levels of permanent decay experience were found in

Tasmania,”(Water Fluoridation & children’s dental health Survey

Australia 2002 Armfield JM, Slade GD & Spencer AJ. The following

Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Medicare by ANGLICARE

TASMANIA in July 2003, stated: “*Tasmanian adults have the worst dental

health in the nation with the highest percentage of edentulous (complete

loss of natural teeth) adults per capita with 15.3% of the adult

population, compared to the national average of 9.7%.The State also has

the highest percentage of persons wearing a denture in the nation, with

11.2% in the 25 –

44 year category, which is almost double the national average.” Stated

also in this report “Tasmania has had some of the worst health

indicators in the nation,” It appears we have been suckers and lab rats

for along time, time for it to stop. Be active against fluoridation.**

STATELINE TASMANIA: RE: DISGRACEFUL STATE OF TASMANIANS TEETH

http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/tas/content/2005/s1425933.htm

*Anglicare recently held a photographic exhibition of dental photographs

to reveal the extent of Tasmania's oral decay.

http://www.anglicare-tas.org.au/index.php?option=com_docman & task=doc_view & gid=27\

& Itemid=84<http://www.anglicare-tas.org.au/index.php?option=com_docman & task=doc_\

view & gid=27 & Itemid=84>

Access to Dental Care for Low Income Tasmanians A Discussion Paper Prue

Cameron Social Action and Research Centre February 2002

*REPORT STATES:- Adult Tasmanians also have the worst dental health

status in the nation.

I'll say it again people, Tasmania has been fluoridated for 50+ years!!

and also:- HEALTH COMPLAINTS - I wonder how many never bothered to

complain!!!

http://www.healthcomplaints.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/68610/Health_\

Complaints_Commissioner_Annual_Report_2005_6.pdf

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http://www.arthritistrust.org/Articles/Sodium%20Fluoride%20The%20Obedience%20Dru\

g.pdf

excerpt:- /Unfortunately, *sodium fluoride interferes with one of our

most important neurotransmitters, acetylcholine.*

(See " Fluoride: Governmentally Approved Poison, http://

www.arthritistrust.org <http://www.arthritistrust.org>. Ed.)

*Governmentally Approved Poison* here:

http://www.arthritistrust.org/Articles/Fluoride.pdf

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*Video - Dr. Phyllis Mullinex on Fluoride - In 1995 Groundbreaking study

linking fluoride with damage to the central nervous system*

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=9daqPRUWpMc

and

Statement from Dr. Phyllis Mullenix on the *Neurotoxicity of Fluoride*

http://www.fluoridealert.org/pmullenix.htm

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http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/

264 Fluoride 2004;37(4):264–277 Research Report

Fluoride 2004;37(4)

*Dr Blaylock is a Board-certified neurosurgeon,* a member of the

Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association

(JANA), and the author of three books on excitotoxicity:

Excitoxicity: the taste that kills, Health and nutrition secrets, and

Natural strategies for cancer patients.

*EXCITOTOXICITY: A POSSIBLE CENTRAL MECHANISM IN FLUORIDE NEUROTOXICITY*

L Blaylock

Ridgeland, MS, USA

SUMMARY: *Recent evidence indicates that fluoride produces neuronal

destruction and synaptic injury* by a mechanism that involves free

radical production and lipid peroxidation. For a number of pathological

disorders of the central nervous system (CNS), excitotoxicity plays a

critical role. Various studies have shown that many of the neurotoxic

metals, such as mercury, lead, aluminum, and iron also injure neural

elements in the CNS by an excitotoxic mechanism. Free radical generation

and lipid peroxidation, especially in the face of hypomagnesemia and low

neuronal energy production, also magnify excitotoxic sensitivity of

neurons and their elements. This paper reviews briefly some of the

studies that point to a common mechanism for the CNS neurotoxic effects

of fluoride and calls for research directed toward further elucidation

of this mechanism.

INTRODUCTION

Compelling evidence indicates t*hat fluoride produces injury to the

central nervous system (CNS) by several mechanisms.* Of particular

interest is the ability of

fluoride to induce free radical generation and lipid peroxidation in the

brain, especially in the hippocampus. In addition,* fluoride enhances

aluminum absorption*

*from the gastrointestinal mucosa and across the blood-brain barrier.*

*Of particular concern is the recent demonstration that fluoride readily

forms a chemical complex with aluminum, similar to the phosphate ion,

which is toxic to neurons at low concentrations and can act as an

activator of G-proteins, a membrane link to second messenger activation.*

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On July 30, 2002, the BBC reported that the Belgian Ministry of Health

was about to issue a ban on fluoride supplements due to concerns about

osteoporosis and nervous system damage. See link below:-

http://fluoride.ecobytes.net/Alert/Belgium/Interview-with-Belgian-Health-Ministe\

r-on-Belgium%27s-Fluoride-Ban

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http://jvdi.org/cgi/content/full/19/3/305

Sodium Fluoride/Copper Naphthenate Toxicosis in Cattle -- DeBey et al.

19 (3): 305 -- Journal of Veterinary Diagnosis

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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is_261/ai_n13648126/pg_2

Stop fluoridation now: new research on fluoride's brain and thyroid

toxicity

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http://www.youarebeingpoisoned.com/fluoride.html

*YOU ARE BEING POISONED - FLUORIDE*

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http://www.garynull.com/Documents/Dental/Fluoride/fluoride_index.htm

Fluoride: The Deadly Legacy by Null, Ph.D.

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http://www.jwildlifedis.org/cgi/reprint/21/3/283.pdf

EFFECTS OF FLUORIDE INGESTION ON WHITE-TAILED DEER

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http://www.manataka.org/page1854.html

Dogs, Cats, Osteosarcoma, Dysplasia and Pet Food Fluoride

by Glasser, NPWA Bulletin

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*More fluoride poisoned horses*

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~fluoride/2006%20Final%20Website%20Files/fluoride_pois\

oning_of_horses.htm

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http://www.fluoridation.com/brain.htm

A 1996 article Fluoride's Neurological Effects: studies show there may

be grave implications for* Alzheimers, Dementia, Attention Deficit

Disorder, reduced IQ in children*

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http://www.tldp.com/issue/177/FluorideConnection.html

*Fluoride Connection / Fluoride and the Placental Barrier,by G.

Foulkes, MD*

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*Fluoride Toxicity Research Centre*

http://www.slweb.org/ftrc.html

/Second Look’s/ increasing focus on the toxicity of fluorides and

fluorine compounds and related health effects is largely the result of

fluoride's ongoing “invisibility”. We have been striving to convey the

scientific information that /is/ known about fluoride/fluorine compound

toxicity to those who ought to know but do not. We are also trying to

stimulate scientific, public, and government interest in

fluoride-related issues that have been virtually ignored.

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Fluoride Chronology Zero Waste America

How we got fluoridated

http://www.zerowasteamerica.org/FluorideChronology.htm

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Ireland City official speaks out - finds excessive fluoride in urine sample

http://www.nofluoride.com/Irish_fury_over_fluoride.htm

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http://www.drjaygordon.com/development/pediatricks/fluoridesupp.asp

*Another Doctor speaks out about fluoride*

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* Dentist for more than 25 years speaks out on water fluoridation - *

http://www.yes4cleanwater.org/Documents/HopkinsDDSFluoridation.pdf

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http://www.nofluoride.com/natick.htm

Should Natick, Massachusetts Artificially Fluoridate their Water Supply?

This was a question the City of Natick Massachusetts asked in 1997.*

With so much apparently conflicting data, often from the same medical

organizations, they* *commissioned a respected team of top scientists to

analyze the data and make a recommendation.* The following are their

conclusions and specific recommendations.

Findings, Conclusion, and Recommendations of the Natick Fluoridation

Study Committee

27 September, 1997

A Report to the Town and the Board of Selectmen Prepared by the Natick

Fluoridation Study Committee

13 E. Central Street

Natick, Massachusetts by Dr. B. J. Gallo, Research Microbiologist, U.S.

Army Research J. Kupperschmidt, Environmental Chemist

Dr. Norman R. Mancuso, former Apollo Program Project Scientist A.

Murray, former U.S. Army Natick Research Labs Dr. Strauss, Molecular

Biologist

*/Findings/*

The Natick Fluoridation Study Committee conducted a thorough review of

the scientific literature and made the following findings regarding the

benefits and risks of water fluoridation.

o Recent studies of the incidence of cavities in children show

little to no difference between fluoridated and

non-fluoridated communities.

o Ten to thirty percent (10-30%) of Natick's children will

have very mild to mild dental fluorosis if Natick

fluoridates its water (up from probably 6% now).

Approximately 1% of Natick's children will have moderate or

severe dental fluorosis.

o Dental fluorosis can cause great concern for the affected

family and may result in additional dental bills. It should

not be dismissed as a " cosmetic " effect.

o Fluoride adversely effects the central nervous system,

causing behavioral changes and cognitive deficits. These

effects are observed at fluoride doses that some people in

the US actually receive.

o There is good evidence that fluoride is a developmental

neurotoxicant, meaning that fluoride effects the nervous

system of the developing fetus at doses that are not toxic

to the mother. The evelopmental neurotoxicity would be

manifest as lower IQ and behavioral changes.

o Water fluoridation shows a positive correlation with

increased hip fracture rates in persons 65 years of age and

older, based on two recent epidemiology studies.

o Some adults are hypersensitive to even small quantities of

fluoride, including that contained in fluoridated water. At

least one such person is a Natick resident.

o The impact of fluoride on human reproduction at the levels

received from environmental exposures is a serious concern.

A recent epidemiology study shows a correlation between

decreasing annual fertility rate in humans and increasing

levels of fluoride in drinking water.

o Animal bioassays suggest that fluoride is a carcinogen,

especially for tissues such as bone (osteosarcoma) and

liver. The potential for carcinogenicity is supported by

fluoride's genotoxicity and pharmacokinetic properties.

Human epidemiology studies to date are inconclusive, but no

appropriate major study has been conducted.

o Fluoride inhibits or otherwise alters the actions of a long

list of enzymes important to metabolism, growth, and cell

regulation.

o Sodium fluorosilicate and fluorosilicic acid, the two

chemicals Natick intends to use to fluoridate the water

supply, have been associated with increased concentrations

of lead in tap water and increased blood lead levels in

children, based on case reports and a new,

as-yet-unpublished study.

o If Natick fluoridates its water supply at the proposed

level, most children under the age of three will daily

receive more fluoride than is recommended for them.

The scientific literature supporting these findings is summarized in the

full report which also discusses a variety of non-health related

concerns that have been raised about water fluoridation

*/Conclusion /*

*The Committee reached the firm conclusion that the risks of

overexposure to fluoride far outweigh any current benefit of water

fluoridation.*

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http://www.fluorideresearch.org/373/files/FJ2004_v37_n3_p147-150.pdf

MISPLACED TRUST IN OFFICIAL REPORTS - FLUORIDE

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*QUEENSLANDERS FOR SAFE WATER *http://www.qawf.org/

*RECYCLED SEWERAGE & FLUORIDE*

http://www.loveforlife.com.au/book/export/html/5550

*SODIUM FLUORIDE A DEADLY POISON - NOT IN MY WATE*R

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/sodium-fluoride-not-in-my-water/2845333519/?ic\

id=VIDURVNWS05

and

www.goldcoastwaterwatch.webs.com

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and *Sewerage & dangerous chemicals in your water *

http://loveforlife.com.au/files/SEWAGE.pdf

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More fluoride data http://www.mcs-global.org/Fluoride.htm

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Some more data on true *dangers of Fluoridation.*

www.drpaulrubin.com/downloads/*Fluoride*PositionPaper.doc<http://www.drpaulrubin\

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http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/fluoride-poison.shtml

The fluoride added to drinking water is man-made. It is called

fluorosilicic acid which is a compound of fluorine that is a chemical

by-product of aluminium, steel, cement, phosphate, and nuclear weapons

manufacturing. It is one of the most caustics of industrial chemicals.

Fluoride is the active toxin in rat poisons and cockroach powder.

Fluorosilicic acid is used to refine high octane gasoline, to make

fluorocarbons and chlorofluorocarbons for freezers and air conditioners,

and to manufacture computer screens, fluorescent light bulbs,

semiconductors, plastics, herbicides and ...

toothpaste.......................... click above link to read full article.

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http://www.njsafewater.org/dohss.html *New Jersey Citizens opposing

forced fluoridation. (this is one of thousands of groups globally)

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http://www.wafreepress.org/55/Flouridation.htm *Fluoridation: Toxic and

Ineffective*

It’s in much of our state’s drinking water. Health and environmental

groups are increasingly opposing it.

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http://fluoride.vox.com/ *Fluoride's impact on brain* - focus on 2

conferences

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http://www.staytuned.ws/articles/fluorideref.html

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http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoridation.html

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http://www.actionpa.org/fluoride/reasons.html Action Pennsylvania

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* LA LEGAL - speaks out about danger of fluoridation*

http://www.la-legal.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=19641 & topic_id=2892<\

http://www.la-legal.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=19641 & topic_id=2892>

Monroe attorney Milton Dale Peacock writes in the News Star " I am not a

scientist, but my father, Dr. Milton O. Peacock, was. Daddy was a

brilliant scientist and educator who fought tirelessly and successfully

against the folly of fluoridation. He saw clearly its dangers. My father

entered into glory on Jan. 19. It is my duty to defend the truth he knew. "

" Serious scientific research has revealed numerous dangers and potential

dangers from the ingestion of fluoride. Those include bone cancer,

increased bone fractures, lead poisoning, brain damage and dental

fluorosis...If this bill is passed, encourage our fine governor to veto

it, " writes Peacock.

“The Louisiana Dental Association misinformed legislators about

fluoride's safety,” says attorney Beeber, President, New York State

Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.

For example, their online letter to legislators says, " more than six

decades of research, literally thousands of studies and the experience

of more than 170 million Americans tell us that fluoridation is safe,

effective and economical in preventing tooth decay. "

However, the most recent review of fluoride toxicology is from the

prestigious National Research Council (NRC). In 2006, the NRC revealed

that fluoride, even at low levels added for fluoridation, is detrimental

to the thyroid, diabetics, kidney patients, high water drinkers and others.

read full article above, here is extract:- Serious scientific research

has revealed numerous dangers and potential dangers from the ingestion

of fluoride. Those include bone cancer, increased bone fractures, lead

poisoning, brain damage and dental fluorosis...If this bill is passed,

encourage our fine governor to veto it, " writes Peacock.

and

http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Louisiana-May-Mandate-Fluoridation-D\

espite-Evidence-of-Harm-20853-1/

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http://www.consumerhealth.org/articles/display.cfm?ID=19990303222823

*Consumer Health Organisation of Canada FLUORIDE THE SILENT KILLER *

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http://www.greenparty.org.uk/files/reports/2003/Dodgy%20dossier,%20fluoride.htm

* Sexing-up the case for fluoride:*

*The dentists’ dodgy dossier*

How MPs and the public have been misled in order to win support for an

attack on human rights and medical ethics

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http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/89arena.html *Article dated

l989 from re: fluoridation *

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http://charleshamel.com/2008/03/14/is-fluoride-dangerous/ from Japan

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http://www.waterloowatch.com/Index_files%5CReasons%20For%20Fluoridation%20Dwindl\

e.pdf

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http://home.vicnet.net.au/~fluoride/2004%20Final%20Website%20Files/fluoridation_\

hoax.htm

Australian Fluoridation News - Brisbane Teeth

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http://www.novalek.com/kordon/articles/fluoride.html

The Effects Of Fluoride In Drinking Water On Fishes and Aquatic Life

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Fluoride Dangers' on Today Tonight by Seven Adelaide

http://altnews.asia/node/8*

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*http://www.ivanfraser.com/articles/health/fluoride.html

Information on fluorinated pharmaceuticals, anaesthetics et al

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http://members.greenpeace.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=5538 & sid=9d758e4a85bd8a71d7\

c00f005d5853f3

Greenpeace speak out about dangers of fluoride

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http://www.voiceireland.org/articles/240608_toothpaste.html

*Irish Dentists Opposing Fluoridation* - To avert another undeniable

systems failure in the health service,

Health Minister Harney must STOP FLUORIDATION NOW.

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Presentation materials on No to fluoridation

http://www.nofluoride.com/presentations/presentation.htm

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http://www.nofluoride.com/index.html

Citizens for Safe Drinking Water - Mtn. View California

E.P.A. should act immediately to protect the public, not just on the cancer

data, but *on the **evidence of bone fractures, arthritis,/

/**mutagenicity and other effects.* " -* Dr. Marcus, /Senior

Toxicologist/ at E.P.A*.

and

/ " /Water contains a number of substances that are undesirable, and

fluorides are just one of them " stated *Dr. F. A. Bull,* */State Dental

Director/ of Wisconsin*, speaking at the Fourth Annual Conference of

State Dental Directors.

and

" I would advise against fluoridation.. *Side-effects cannot be

excluded** .. *In Sweden, the emphasis nowadays is to keep the

environment as clean as possible with regard to pharmacologically active

and, thus, potentially toxic substances. "

- /Dr. Arvid Carlsson <http://www.nofluoride.com/Carlsson_Opposes.pdf>/,

co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine (2000)

and

I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs.

Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effects on a

long range basis. Any attempt to use water this way is deplorable. "

- Dr. Gordon Heyd, /Past President of the American Medical

Association

/and

The American Medical Association is *NOT prepared to state that no harm

will be done to any person by water fluoridation * The AMA has not

carried out any research work, either long-term or short-term, regarding

the possibility of any side effects. " - Dr. Flanagan, Assistant Director

of Environmental Health, American Medical Association.

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http://www.slweb.org/bibliography.html

/A Bibliography of Scientific Literature on Fluoride/

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http://poisonfluoride.com/pfpc/

Vancouver Parents of Fluoride Poisoned children

http://www.poisonfluoride.com/pfpc/html/index_drugs.html

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Fluorinated drugs

http://www.poisonfluoride.com/pfpc/html/prozac.html

http://www.poisonfluoride.com/pfpc/html/index_drugs.html

I am including this as there is reference to fluorinated drugs* :- Dr.

Breggin - R. Breggin, M.D., Director, International Center

for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology link below

http://www.lucire.com.au/documents/pdf/Breggin.pdf

and http://breggin.com/index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=200 Dr.

Breggin's Testimony

and http://breggin.com/index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=199

http://breggin.com/index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=181

http://breggin.com/index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=187

http://breggin.com/index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=163

http://breggin.com/index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=197

*also including as reference to fluorinated drugs*

http://www.lucire.com.au/documents/new-drugs-new-problems.aspx

* Dr Yolande Lucire PhD MBBS DPM FRANZCP is a forensic psychiatrist and

medical anthropologist in private practice.

*http://www.lucire.com.au/documents/pdf/akathisia-crime-malpractice.pdf

http://www.lucire.com.au/documents/pdf/Daubert-hearing-on-ADs.pdf

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